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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Academia
Just be warned - there's a teensy (tinsy, teensie?) weensy bit of crude language. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor....
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Category: Psychology
This year I was asked to participate in the Illusion of the year contest and it was a blast! There were a bunch of great illusions and I had no idea who was going to win it until the votes were counted. There's even some great video of me acting...
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Category: Humor
I've been fascinated by chatroulette since news of it has been floating around the internet for the last month or so. Not fascinated enough to actually go on it... but fascinated anyway. This is by far the coolest thing I've seen coming from it so far. Twitter on the other...
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Category: Blogging
In an amazing turn of events the most famous video of all time not on youtube is now on youtube... omg! omg! haha... Follow the instructions if you actually haven't seen this before (which I would be surprised if you have not). oh and look... Dan and Chris have a...
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Category: Art
I've seen a lot of illusions... but this one is really f'n cool: CHOP CUP from :weareom: on Vimeo. -via neatorama-...
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Category: Neuroscience
Here's an interesting video from boingboing: Boing Boing presents a remix of "Synesthesia," a documentary directed by Jonathan Fowler about people whose senses blend, or mix. For instance: a synesthete might see colors when listening to music, or taste flavors when hearing a spoken word. In this documentary, Dr. David...
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Category: Biology
To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemispheres (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway. Here's what happens as a result:...
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Category: Drugs
From The Man With Two Brains. "God damn your drunk tests are hard!"...
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Category: Humor
Here's a wonderful spoof of .. well... I'm not really sure what. Perhaps an old Documentary focusing on the diseases of the mind? In any case it's terribly entertaining....
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Category: Art
If I only had a brain: According to this highly intelligible comment from YouTube this song was featured on Beavis and Butthead - surprise surprise! DaDrizzL31214 (2 weeks ago) On Beavis and Butthead, they were waatching this vid and Beavis started going with the tune for the whole song. He...
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